What does your involvement consist or?
Going to wives' meetings at the club. I am on the committee of the group. We Try to make life easier for the children, in particular now with the summer holiday.
We help feeding the pickets. I also share womer oiletries, baby foods, on. We have a rota for the distribution.
And also I go speaking at meetings when we are invited. But it is a problem o go to meetings. To go to the club the bus fare is about fl, that's 50p each That's a lot of money. vay.
before?
No, I had never been to a to be bored after the strike.
on nappies and so LION She's made get everything he But it is going to take a long time.
wives. Had you been involved in anything meeting before. I enjoy the challenge. I'm going How do you see the strike being solved? There is not going to be an easy soluinto a political strike. I don't think Scargill is going to wants. MacGregor is not going to get everything he wants.
They underestimate the fellows and Many women did not know why they were being arrested, 'Why me' yelled one young miner's wife as she was being dragged away. 'I've fancied you all evening,' the arresting officer told her. Another woman, charged with using foul and abusive language, was told by a police officer: 'Call yourself a woman - I wouldn't even piss on you.' The women were dragged to the police van with a brutality quite out of proportion to their resistance offering no resistance, was dragged by two officers, One whom had his